Tumbul is a village and municipality in the Nakhchivan city of

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. It is located 5 km in the south from the city center, on the Nakhchivan plain. Its population is mainly busy with grape-growing. There are secondary school, club, library and a medical center in the village. It has a population of 1,595. The municipality consists of the villages of Tumbul and

Haciniyyət Haciniyyət (also, Hadzhyniyyat and Hajyniyyet) is a village in the municipality of Tumbul in Nakhchivan city, Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic, Azerbaijan. It is located 5 km in the south-east from the city center. Its population is busy with ...

Etymology

According to some researchers, the name is reflects the name of the

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tribe which called ''dumbuli''. This tribe have been moved from

Syria Syria ( ar, سُورِيَا or سُورِيَة, translit=Sūriyā), officially the Syrian Arab Republic ( ar, الجمهورية العربية السورية, al-Jumhūrīyah al-ʻArabīyah as-Sūrīyah), is a Western Asian country loc ...

to the south of

in the period of the

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ruler

Qara Yusuf ''Abu Nasr'' Qara Yusuf ibn Mohammad Barani ( az, Qara Yusif ; c. 1356 – 1420) was the ruler of the Qara Qoyunlu dynasty (or "Black Sheep Turkomans") from c.1388 to 1420, although his reign was interrupted by Tamerlane's invasion (1400–1405) ...

(1410–20) and later they served to the Gyzylbashs. At the present in

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, the remains of this tribe are known as ''isabeyli''. At the

Safavid Safavid Iran or Safavid Persia (), also referred to as the Safavid Empire, '. was one of the greatest Iranian empires after the 7th-century Muslim conquest of Persia, which was ruled from 1501 to 1736 by the Safavid dynasty. It is often conside ...

period, a part of the ''dumbulis'' have moved to the north of the

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History

Since June 9, 2009, by the decree of the

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of the

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, the Tumbul and Haciniyyət villages of the

Babek District Babek District () is one of the 7 districts of the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic of Azerbaijan. The district borders the districts of Julfa, Shahbuz, Kangarli, Nakhchivan city, as well as the Vayots Dzor Province of Armenia and the East Azerb ...

are included in the scope of the administrative territorial unit of Nakhchivan city.

Monuments

St. Hovhannes Church was a ruinous Armenian church located in the center of the village and was completely destroyed in 1997–2005.

References

* Populated places in Azerbaijan Districts of Azerbaijan Subdivisions of the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic Populated places in Babek District {{Nakhchivan-geo-stub